Price-card holder.



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PRIGE CARD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED P33. 9, 1907.

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RALPH S. BARTLE, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

PRICE-CARD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application filed February 9,1907. Serial No. 356,522.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH S. BARCILE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Price- Card Holders; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its especial object to provide an improved price card holder adapted for use in' dry goods stores and elsewhere, where articles are sold in varying quantities at a fixed unit of measure, as, for instance, cloth at a certain price per yard.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation, looking at the face of one side of the improved holder, and showing also a price card held thereby. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail in section on the line x x of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail in section taken on either of the two section lines :0 x of Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a detail in section taken on the line 9: x of Fig. 1.

The price card is indicated by the numeral 1. This card is provided with a large head or upper endportion and with a narrow depending stem portion. The large head portion is adapted to have printed or otherwise marked thereon large numerals or characters, indicating the price per yard or unit of measure, of the goods to which or in the vicinity of which the mark is applied. On the depending stern portion of the card a price table is adapted to be printed or otherwise marked, so that the clerk instead of stopping to figure out the total amount of a certain number of yards, either full yards or fractions thereof, may instantly and accurately determine the same by looking at the table.

The holder for this card is made up, primarily, of a pair of channel bars 2, a base block or bar 3, and laterally spaced retaining bars or straps 4. The lower portions of the channel bars 2 extend parallel to each other and are adapted to receive the edges of the depending portions of the price card mark within their channels. At their lower ends the channel bars 2 are brazed or otherwise rigidly secured to the block 3 and the latter is preferably provided with a groove in its upper edge that receives the lower end of the depending portion of said price card. The upper end portions of the channel bars 2 diverge from each other approximately at an angle of ninety degrees, and they are adapted to receive the lower edges of the rectangular head of the price card 1 within their channels. The retaining bars or straps 4 that lie in the same vertical plane are rigidly or integrally united at their upper ends, and the lower ends thereof are rigidly or integrally united to the flanges of the channel bars 2. The said retaining bars 4 extend at an angle of ninety degrees to each other and to the diverging upper end portions of the channel bars.

Preferably, the holder described is supported by a pedestal made up of a stem 5 and base 6.

When the card is inserted within the holder, as shown by full lines in Fig. 1, it lies entirely within the marginal portions of the said holder. The dotted lines in Fig. 1 show the price card slightly raised from its seated position in the holder.

As is evident, the price card may be readily inserted in working position or removed therefrom by endwise movement through the narrow opening left between the laterally spaced so-called retaining bars 4. The said retaining bars, not only tie together the upper ends of the channel bars 2, but they protect the upper end or enlarged head portion of the price card and prevent the same from being mutilated or broken.

As shown in the drawings, two price cards placed back to back are inserted into the holder with their printed faces exposed on opposite sides of the holder.

What I claim is:

A price card holder comprising the clrannel'bars 2 having approximately parallel lower end portions and diverg ing upper end portions, a block or bar 3 rigidly connecting the lower end of said channel bars, and the laterally spaced retaining bars 4 extending at an angle to each other and connected to the flanges at the upper ends of said channel bars, in combination with a price card 1 hav ing an approximately rectangular upper end portion and 21 depending lower portion, which price card is adapted to fit within said holder, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RALPH S. BARTLE.

Witnesses H. D. Knreonn, ARTHUR W. SELOVER. 

